Steve Frederick

December 2012

Summit 2012 Trending Topics and WebFOCUS Update

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What it’s all about

“Summit is a great mix of roadmap, product updates and sneak peeks, and hands-on training. I particularly like seeing new ways other customers are using WebFOCUS.”

Teri Howe, Manager, Product Management | Varolii Corporation

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Process For Continuous Innovation & Capability Expansion to Support Business & User Growth Over Time

What it’s all about

Top 8 Topics Trending Now!

Mobile Active Technologies Pro Portal/Graphics Big Data Advanced Analytics Predictive Security Data Quality

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Mobile and Active

Active Technologies for Mobile Web Apps

Ease of Use Single-tap UI paradigm Full gesture & screen rotation support Embedded data analysis and visualization Full offline data interactivity

Ease of Development Dynamic device detection Build once, fit in any device

Industry Standard Web Apps technology iPhone App-like UI Available in HTML or Flash

Active Technologies UI Upgrade

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Enabling Self Service for Business Users:

BI Portal & InfoAssist

The Self Service Trend: Hype & Reality

Self-Service is the new management fad: banking, retail, telecom, BI….

Self-Service Myths: Valid across all industries 1. Self- Service is a foolproof way to reduce cost:

Implement it right or not at all2. Self-Service eliminates IT bottlenecks (customer interactions):

Works only as part of a multi-channel service plan3. Self-Service is a quick fix:

It is often only a transfer of cost It frequently alienates users

4. One Self-Service method fits all customers and all their needs: Only some customers prefer self-service: Find out who Many BI customers do not know any better

For IBI Self-Service is one aspect of a much broader enterprise information and decision support system

InfoAssist & New Portal

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BI Portal: Focus on engaging the BI consumer Customizable: Let the users define how they consume content Collaborative: Let the users define how they want to publish

and share content Componentized: Let the users define what widgets they want to

add to their content pages.

InfoAssist: Single tool and single workflow to make the tool as easy and ubiquitous as Excel for the analytic BI user Enhanced analytic capabilities Enhanced interactive design capabilities

BIP

Objective: Become highly competitive in the self-service market with enterprise level query, analysis & portal tools

IA

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New Visualization Engine

The New Visualization Engine: Benefits

An entirely new unified visualization technology that is now being rolled out across our entire product line

The benefits: The exact same chart experience in all output formats: Active

Technologies, HTML5, Flex, PDF The same set of properties and syntax for all IBI products A high level of visual sophistication:

Gradients Animations

Works in all browsers including mobile Easily expandable and customizable:

Allows IBI consultants and BI developers to quickly meet customer requirements by adding custom properties and features

Availability: Version 1.0 for regular and Active HTML output formats.

Active Technologies

Sample HTML5 output

WebFOCUS HyperstageBig Data and Sentiment Analysis

Improve database performance for WebFOCUS applications with less hardware, no database tuning and easy migration.

WebFOCUS Hyperstage - Why?

Why Do BI Applications Fail? Typically 3 Reasons….1. Too ComplicatedSelf-Service, Guided Ad hoc2. Bad DataData Quality3. Too SlowHyperstage

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Hyperstage will improve database performance for WebFOCUS applications with less hardware, no database tuning and easy migration.

IT Manager’s try to mitigate these response times …..

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Source: KEEPING UP WITH EVER-EXPANDING ENTERPRISE DATA ( Joseph McKendrick Unisphere Research October 2010)

How Performance Issues are Typically Addressed – by Pace of Data Growth

Don't Know / Unsure

Upgrade networking infrastructure

Archive older data on other systems

Upgrade/expand storage systems

Upgrade server hardware/processors

Tune or upgrade existing databases

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

7%

21%

30%

33%

54%

66%

4%

32%

44%

60%

70%

75%

High Growth

Low Growth

I/O is typically the first thing addressed to increase the performance of growing databases.

WebFOCUS Hyperstage Components

Hyperstage is extremely flexible and the components can be deployed on the same server as WebFOCUS or on their own dedicated servers.

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Smarter Architecture

No maintenance No query planning No partition schemes No DBA

Data Packs – data stored in manageably sized, highly compressed data packs

Knowledge Grid – statistics and metadata “describing” the super-compressed data

Column Orientation

WebFOCUS Hyperstage Engine

Data compressed using algorithms tailored to data type

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Sentiment Analysis

Search for a product across many systems

Narrow down matches based on Sentiment Analysis

Compare facets withCategory Tree pie charts

Magnify Sentiment Analysis

How It Works Natural language processing on

any mix of structured and unstructured content

Magnify calls WAND’s Taxonomy server Web Service

A positive, negative, or neutral score is returned to Magnify

Magnify displays sentiment as part of the Category Tree

Allows users to filter search results based on the information's overall tone

Enrich Enterprise Information with Sentiment

Predictive

RStat: Why Analytic Applications

Analytic Applications: Targeted to well defined business or functional problems

Examples: Activity Based Cost Accounting, EBITA, etc. Based on well known and established methodologies Repeatable across industries with small variations

The Problem: IT cannot build them Business users have knowledge how to use but lack the knowledge to

create requirements IT lacks the business knowledge

Packaged Advantages: Time to market Extend BI usage without straining development resources

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Pricing Application

Price Optimization Application

IBI Fractal solution

Why use a Price Optimization application? How do you determine the right price? How elastic is the price, i.e., how sensitive is the consumer to price

increase/decrease? What is the cost of having the wrong price?

The Price Optimizations applications improves the accuracy of the pricing decisions by: Capturing all the dimensions for pricing – consumer demand,

competition, and profitability Providing both historical as well as predictive view of the demand-

price scenarios Incorporating all past learnings of consumer behavior in response

to price changes in the models

Pricing Application

Projected KPIs (Numerical and graphical)Modified Prices

Export options

With the changed price, the projected numbers for Quantity sold, $ sales, margin, %margin and variance for all of these items get updated. The numbers are also visualized graphically.User also have option of exporting the new pricing and projected numbers into Excel, PDF or HTML output

Security

Why a New Security Model?Customer Feedback Related to WebFOCUS 7x

Managed Reporting Role Security was LimitingOnly 5 base roles and 9 permissionsOne role for all Domains

Domain Security Model was LimitingCouldn’t customize security on sub-folders

Content Sharing was LimitingCouldn’t share with specific people

Challenging for Multi-tenancy SaaS DeploymentsCouldn’t allow sharing in a common Domain—user’s

would see content from other tenantsDilemma: abandon common domain or drop sharing?

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WebFOCUS 8 Addresses These Challenges!

WebFOCUS 8 Security Model Benefits

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Flexible Security ModelOver 150 assignable permissionsCan develop custom permission sets

Sub-Groups and Inheritance Simplify Policy CreationEasy to Use Tools to Create and Verify Security PoliciesMakes it Possible to Support Many Different Deployment

Requirements

Data Quality

Make Your BI Better

Data Quality - Facts and Stats

250 CFO’s Surveyed -75% said “data quality significantly impedes performance.”

Gartner Survey(2009)

50% of Data Warehouse projects will fail or receive limited acceptance because of NOT proactively addressing data quality issues

Thomas Redman – Data-Driven(2008)

The amount of data you have

doubles every 12 to 18 monthsThomas Redman – Data-Driven(2008)

1/3 of data in ERP systems originate from outside of the organisation

Gartner Survey(2009)

2.9% of transactions from external trading partners require exception processing or error handling

Gartner Survey(2009)

“It costs a company 10 times as much to process a faulty transaction compared to a perfect transaction.”

Thomas Redman – Data-Driven(2008)

Data Quality Centre

Profiling

DQC

CleansingParsing Validation Enrichment Match & MergeMonitoring

A state-of-the-art solution designed to optimise the integrity of information throughout an entire business.

With comprehensive, fully customisable business rules and a portfolio of localised dictionaries

Center of Excellence

Maximize Your Investment

Center of ExcellenceWhy?

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Innovation Days

Maximize Your Investment

Innovation DayWhat is it?

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Show Us Yours Pick the best 4-5 topics of interest

Mobile Active Technologies Pro Portal/Graphics Big Data Advanced Analytics Predictive Security Data Quality Center of Excellence

Delivered in a 2 hour lunch time based interactive session Combination of presentation on trends as they apply to your app

and supportive demo’s) Follow Innovation Day with a 1 day Health Check Health Check Report Card

“You own it! Now make WebFOCUS perform like never before!”

Thank You!